Download or read book Is Cargill Inc really the answer to world hunger written by Richard John Alexander and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book looks at the history and contemporary position of Cargill Inc. and relates how it has become the largest transnational agri-commodity trader in the world over the years. It surveys some of the agricultural-food products Cargill trades in, including soya, cocoa, palm oil, meat and dairy products. In particular the book analytically examines, whether the company engages in environmentally or ecologically good practice. The discussion of Cargill's producing and trading food globally is framed within a set of ecocritical principles. The book focuses on what Cargill says they do and it investigates the manner in which they say they are doing things. It discusses how the company, Cargill, is keen to present itself as a sustainable corporation. The story it presents to the world maintains that it protects animal welfare, the environment and people, among other things, in all its operations. The language it employs on its corporate websites is subjected to close analysis. The book describes how from an ecological and economic perspective Cargill has enveloped the global food production system with its network of offices and facilities. Along the way, its various activities are held to have contributed immensely to the ecological and environmental degradation of the physical world. Industrial agriculture and the food industry are seen by some observers almost as big a driver of climate change as fossil fuels.
Download or read book Transforming Food Systems written by Molly D. Anderson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the contested nature and competing narratives of food system transformations, despite it being widely acknowledged that changes are essential for the safeguarding of human and planetary health and well-being. The book approaches food system transformation through narratives, or the stories we tell ourselves and others about how things work. Narratives are closely connected with theories of change, although food system actors frequently lack explicit theories of change. Using political economy and systems approaches to analyze food system transformation, the author focuses on how power in food systems manifests, and how this affects whom can obtain healthy and culturally appropriate food on a reliable basis. Among the narratives covered are agroecology, food sovereignty and technological innovation. The book draws on interviews and recorded speeches by a broad range of stakeholders, including international policymakers, philanthropists, academics and researchers, workers in the food and agricultural industries and activists working for NGOs and social movements. In doing so, it presents contrasting narratives and their implicit or explicit theories of change. This approach is vitally important as decisions made by policymakers over the next few years, based on competing narratives, will have a major influence on who will eat what, how food will be produced, and who will have a voice is shaping food systems. The overarching contribution of this book is to point toward the most promising pathways for achieving sustainable food systems and refute pathways that show little hope of achieving a more sustainable future. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers interested in creating a sustainable food system which will ensure a food secure, socially just and environmentally sustainable future.
Download or read book Business Acumen for Strategic Communicators written by Matthew W. Ragas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Ragas and Culp’s prior books, this workbook offers hands-on learning opportunities to help put newly acquired business acumen knowledge into practice. Through briefs, exercises and discussion activities readers will learn to analyze and interpret key business materials produced by companies and nonprofits organizations.
Download or read book History of ADM Archer Daniels Midland Co and the Andreas Family s Work with Soybeans and Soyfoods 1884 2020 written by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 1005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well documented and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 189 photographs and illustrations, many in color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.
Download or read book Hungry for Trade written by John Madeley and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Madeley considers whether free trade in food will help or hinder the abolition of hunger and whether it will chiefly benefit transnational corporations to the detriment of small farmers in the countries of the southern hemisphere.
Download or read book Policy alternatives to the Food Security Act of 1985 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Wheat, Soybeans, and Feed Grains and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Every American Should Know About Who s Really Running the World written by Melissa Rossi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us know the big players politically in the United States. But ever wonder who’s pulling their strings? Who the movers and shakers are around the globe? In sharp, witty prose, What Every American Should Know About Who’s Really Running the World spells out exactly who to watch and what they’ve done (and are still doing). Get the lowdown on: • Pfizer • Monsanto • Oprah Winfrey • WTO & IMF • Wal-Mart • Rupert Murdoch • Al Qaeda Filled with hard facts, global issues, and profiles of the heavy hitters, What Every American Should Know About Who’s Really Running the World is essential reading for all Americans who want a handle on the movers and shakers behind the headlines.
Download or read book The Food System written by Geoff Tansey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food is a massive industry and the many key players involved have very different interests. In wealthy nations those interests can range from corporate survival and maintaining profitability in a market with limited demand, to promoting a healthy diet and ensuring food safety. For the poor, the emphasis is all too often on simply getting enough to eat. As information technology and biotechnology are set to revolutionize the food system, it is essential to understand the broad context in which the different actors operate, so that all the world's people can enjoy a safe, secure, sufficient and sustainable food supply. This text provides an overview of today's dominant food system - one developed in and controlled by northern industrialized countries, and one that is becoming increasingly globalized.
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Download or read book World Food Grain Situation Hearing Before the Subcommittee on South Asian Affairs and the Subcommittee on African Affairs Of 93 1 October 5 1973 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Food written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provided are over 500 citations with abstracts of food-related documents released by the General Accounting Office, Office of Technology Assessment, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Reserch Service, and Congressional Committees from July 1973 through September 1977. Topics are: domestic feeding programs; food safety and quality; nutrition education; nutrition surveillance; farm structure; food production-resources; farm marketing and distribution; price supports, set asides, marketing orders, target prices; food aid and development assistance; trade policies and promotion; population control; internal organization and policies; food policy determination; procurement and specifications; and financial auditing. Appended are abstracts of congressional documents on food, federal information sources and systems on food, recurring reports to the Congress on food, federal program evaluations on food, and major food legislation. Subject. agency/organization, and congressional indexes are included.
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